Re: [Puppet Users] Replacing a puppet server

2010-03-31 Thread Akins, Brian
On 3/31/10 6:52 AM, "LOhit" wrote: > BTW, I am using puppet to manage about 700+ hosts, Before we started using rsync and running puppet locally on each host, we actually added the SSL certs to SVN. Cheesy, but we could quickly, and easily, move clients from master to master. -- Brian Akins -

Re: [Puppet Users] Running on EC2 without a puppetmaster?

2010-03-16 Thread Akins, Brian
On 3/16/10 2:42 PM, "Ben Lavender" wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone else has run this sort of setup, and if so, if > you preferred it or came to regret it? We are doing something similar. We have a "wrapper" script that tries to rsync down the latest version of /etc/puppet, then runs puppet in

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread Akins, Brian
On 11/12/09 1:36 PM, "windowsrefund" wrote: > Can you be more specific? For example, how would you go about ensuring > that apache is running inside a non-global zone? The same as we do on any node. Service ensure running. -- Brian Akins --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[Puppet Users] Re: Opensolaris: beyond zones

2009-11-12 Thread Akins, Brian
On 11/12/09 12:10 PM, "windowsrefund" wrote: > That's not an option for me as I'm already planning on managing a few > hundred physical nodes. Any other approaches out there? We manage a few thousand. We generally operate on "groups" (as defined in our external nodes classifier) and never on i

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet failover

2009-10-29 Thread Akins, Brian
We just have 3 puppet masters and sync the configs from one master-master to 2 master-slaves. Works very well. We have certs setup so a client can connect to any of the masters. -- Brian Akins --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet server recommendations

2009-08-19 Thread Akins, Brian
On 8/19/09 10:06 AM, "cnjohnson" wrote: > Any thoughts about what sort of puppet-box I need to manage a cluster > of 800 boxes? How often will puppet "wake up" on each client? If only once an hour normally, a decent "normal" server (say 8GB RAM, dual dual-core CPU's) should be fine. At least

[Puppet Users] Re: 32bit and 64bit versions of packages

2009-08-04 Thread Akins, Brian
On 8/4/09 2:34 AM, "Avi Miller" wrote: > This will also create the oracle user and oinstall/dba groups, as well > as set sysctl.conf and limits.conf and everything else that usually has > to be done manually before you can install Oracle. :) Except, in my case, puppet controls those files :) --